How to Fall to Your Death and Live to Tell the Tale
Slipping in the shower, tripping down the stairs, taking a tumble in the supermarket – falls kill over 420,000 people per year and hospitalise millions more. We can’t eliminate all falls, says Neil Steinberg. So we must learn to fall better.
A Bad Broadband Market Begs for Net Neutrality Protections
The broadband market is not a free market. That’s why people need net neutrality. Confused? Kate Tummarello explains for you.
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence. Patrick Blanchfield writes.
Wolf Evolution and “Settled Science”
Ricki Lewis reframes a discussion about wolf taxonomy into a discussion about the evidence for so-called “climate change.”
Sunday Comics
“I’m not one who makes believe, I know that leaves are green. They only change to brown when autumn comes around. I know just what I say, today’s not yesterday, and all things have an ending.”
A Nonviolent Strategy to Liberate Syria
Robert J. Burrowes considers a solution to the Syrian problem that requires no mourning mothers.
Can the Laws of Robotics be Adapted for Paleontology?
Andrew Farke considers some rules for scientists to behave well, culled from Asimov and Roddenberry.
Free Thing of the Week: Pepper and Carrot Motion Comic
Pepper and Carrot moves from comic strip to animation in today’s Free Thing.
100 Years of the Espionage Act
Priscilla Guo gives a brief history of the United States Espionage Act and how it has routinely been used to repress information.
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